Controlling the materials properties and nanostructure of a single-component dendritic gel by adding a second component

Hardy, John G. and Hirst, Andrew R. and Smith, David K. and Brennan, Colin and Ashworth, Ian (2005) Controlling the materials properties and nanostructure of a single-component dendritic gel by adding a second component. Chemical Communications (3). pp. 385-387. ISSN 1359-7345

Abstract

This paper reports a dendritic system which is capable of forming both one-component and two-component gels interestingly the addition of the second component can either increase or decrease the degree of gelation, depending on dendritic generation.